Testimony of Healing December 6, 1947 Issue

When I was a small child my...

Mabel Lyon Sykes with contributions from Harold H. Sykes

When I was a small child my mother was healed in Christian Science after a consultation of doctors had resulted in her case being pronounced hopeless, and in her gratitude she sent her children to the Christian Science Sunday School. Christian Science was a preventive more than a curative in my childhood, for I have no recollection of illness, although my mother told me later I had been healed of jaundice when a child.

I recall one instance when my baby brother fell down the cellar stairs, biting his tongue so that the tip of it was almost severed. We did not have a telephone then, and my mother took him In trolley to a practitioner's home. When she returned an hour or more later, the healing was complete.

Another time, when my brother and sister and I were playing on the porch railing, my brother fell onto the cement walk and landed on his wrist in such a way that the bone protruded through the skin. My mother telephoned to a practitioner, who came to the house, and in a few hours my brother was out playing again. In later years I asked my mother about this experience, and she said that while the practitioner was voicing the truth there was a loud sound, and the bone snapped back into its normal place.

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